Mridula Ramesh wrote: > Hi. Firstly, thank you both very much for the response! > > Cliff, I did some more reading up about it after you corrected me re > MySQL not being a _language_ but another means of storing data (would > you believe NONE of the connection tutorials actually said that?!) > Anyway, now I have MySQL on my machine, and it's installed - if I say > "import MySQLdb" in python prompt, it does that, but I can't see any exe > in the program's folder itself: does that mean tables can only be > created by code? *puzzled* > > Steve, thank you too, I looked up the link you had given, but I do not > yet know which part of that site may help me... And I am now going to > struggle with Dive Into Python before attempting much else! > > This is a nice, helpful mailing group! > We try, though not everyone appreciates us :-)
You may find http://www.connectionstrings.com/ more helpful. regard Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Sorry, the dog ate my .sigline -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list